Lead Backend Java Developer

Engagement Type: Full-Time / Contractor

About CodeRoad

CodeRoad is a technology execution partner trusted by companies across North America since 2002. We work alongside our clients to engineer, modernize, and scale the technology that powers their businesses, combining deep technical expertise, specialized teams, and shared accountability for outcomes. Our capabilities span product engineering, platform engineering, legacy modernization, and AI engineering.

Our engineers, designers, delivery leaders, and technology specialists collaborate through Velocity Studios: specialized teams developed within CodeRoad to deliver complex technology initiatives. Being assigned to a project means you become part of a collaborative environment where you can strengthen your expertise, take ownership of meaningful work, and grow alongside experienced professionals.

Why Build Your Career at CodeRoad?

• High-Velocity Work & Client Exposure: We work close to the technology, teams and roadmaps that move real outcomes. Direct engagement with U.S. client teams and roadmaps.

• Career Continuity & Long-Term Opportunity: Your career here can outlast any single project. Continuous multi-project pipeline; long-tenure CodeRoaders.

• Engineering Autonomy & Technical Mastery: We invest in the skills that shape what's next. Agentic AI tools and training, Coursera Enterprise, Studio practice labs, L1-L7 Career Framework.

• High-Trust Employee Experience: You grow in an environment built on trust, transparency and recognition. High-touch onboarding, transparent leadership communication, community recognition, psychological safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect High-Throughput Backend Systems: Design and deploy resilient backend architectures, robust APIs (RESTful, GraphQL, SOAP), and high-performance relational database schemas built on modern Java ecosystems.

• Lead Technical & Architectural Decision-Making: Evaluate complex business demands, challenge technical assumptions, and refactor core microservices to handle high-volume streaming data, real-time inventory sync, and complex order routing.

• Optimize Data Layers & Event Messaging: Streamline database queries, caching strategies using Redis, and event-driven messaging pipelines utilizing Apache Kafka to support web-scale traffic.

• Collaborate with Global Stakeholders: Drive technical alignment across cross-functional leadership, product teams, and international engineering squads (including European time zone overlap).

• Ensure Production Reliability & System Health: Drive end-to-end operational stability, leading root-cause analysis and troubleshooting for mission-critical systems handling millions of daily updates.

• Elevate Engineering & AI Practices: Champion high code quality, lead architectural reviews, and integrate AI-assisted development tools and workflows across engineering teams.

What You Bring

• 8+ Years of Backend Engineering Experience: Proven track record in a Technical Lead or Principal Contributor capacity driving high-impact distributed systems.

• Modern Java & Distributed Ecosystem Mastery: Deep technical proficiency with Java 17/21/25, Spring Framework / Spring Boot, Hibernate/ORM, relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Redis, and Kafka.

• Architectural Autonomy & Business Acumen: Ability to translate complex requirements into scalable architecture, balancing technical trade-offs between latency, system cost, and business goals.

• Cloud Architecture Fluency: Solid understanding of cloud design patterns across AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Advanced English Fluency: Fluent spoken and written English skills for seamless collaboration with global product and executive stakeholders.

• Bonus Technical Exposure: Experience with enterprise e-commerce systems (e.g., SAP Commerce / Hybris), high-throughput NoSQL databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB), AWS microservices orchestration, or IDE-integrated AI coding tools is a strong plus.

What You’ll Love

• USA Contractor / 100% Remote

• Competitive Pay (USD)

• Holidays Off & Paid Time Off

• Health insurance assistance program

• Opportunity to work with high-growth US-based companies and cutting-edge tech stacks.

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